How to get the best lighting:
1. Use natural lighting- sunlight, in shadow, in mist, through rain depending on the effect you need and bearing in mind that you will have to be flexible about time if you need to wait for the right conditions.
2. Use cheap and cheerful artificial light, as long as you have carried out risk assessments, you can make use of candles, firelights, torches, car headlights, security lights, neon signs and street lighting.
3. Create colour filters, you can easily shine light through coloured liquid, vases and ornaments.
4. Position the light source for effect, lighting a scene from above, below or in an obscured way will create different kinds of atmosphere, so experiment with this using the kinds of light source listed above.
5. Ultimately lighting a scene is a scientific process.
Nicole Lewis.
2. Use cheap and cheerful artificial light, as long as you have carried out risk assessments, you can make use of candles, firelights, torches, car headlights, security lights, neon signs and street lighting.
3. Create colour filters, you can easily shine light through coloured liquid, vases and ornaments.
4. Position the light source for effect, lighting a scene from above, below or in an obscured way will create different kinds of atmosphere, so experiment with this using the kinds of light source listed above.
5. Ultimately lighting a scene is a scientific process.
Nicole Lewis.
The key lighting we used and why we used this key lighting:
We are using low key lighting because it makes it mysterious, it is associated as being scary and also it is always dark when bad things happen.
We are using candles and small lamps to keep the lighting as low key lighting so that it is not to dark and so the audience can still see our faces.
Nicole Lewis.
We are using candles and small lamps to keep the lighting as low key lighting so that it is not to dark and so the audience can still see our faces.
Nicole Lewis.
what time of day we are filming:
We decided the best time of day to do our filming would be in the evening as it is still light and we would then have low key lighting which will set a scary tone to our opening sequence. However even though we could film our horror opening title sequence at other times of the day we found that it is best to film in the evening because the stereotypes for when scenes are filmed in horrors are when it is dark. This is because it makes it more scary and creates more of an atmosphere for the audience and builds tension when it is darker. This relates to our group because in our horror opening sequence we are having a get together in it where we are 'drinking' and most teenagers tend to drink at night when they are having friends round or going to a party.
Rebecca White.
Rebecca White.
Why filming in the day WOULDN'T work:
Filming in the day wouldn't work because the room would be to light as the sun would shine through even with the curtains shut. Would also not work as would be able to the shadows of the camera man and people who are in the room which would make it look unrealistic.
Nicole Lewis.
Nicole Lewis.
Examples of good lighting in our sequence
This was good lighting because it was still daylight so the daylight through the window reflected off the glasses. additionally because they are old fashioned windows they let in a little less light making it look like it was the start of the evening.
Rebecca White
Rebecca White
Examples of bad lighting in our opening sequence:
This lighting was bad because the small lamp was behind nicole, therefor you can not see her facial expression as she turns her head towards the door. We should have moved the lamp to in front of her, but under the camera for that shot trying not to make any shadows.
Rebecca White
examples of good lighting in cabin in the woods
We thought it was good lighting when the hand moves towards the zombie girl, then she's stabbed right in the hand. The lighting is good because it makes you focus on the hand just before its stabbed. Creating slow, dramatic tension.
Rebecca
Rebecca
example of good lighting in insidious
insidious uses a lot of good angled lighting on the face to emphasise her facial expression and emotion. Showing the mood of that scene.